Cannot find the object because it does not exist or you do not have permissions. Error in SQL Server

Question

I have a database and have a Sql script to add some fields to a table called \"Products\" in the database.

But when i am executing this script, I am getting the foll

Answer 1

I've been trying to copy a table from PROD to DEV but get an error: "Cannot find the object X because it does not exist or you do not have permissions."

However, the table did exist, and I was running as sa so I did have permissions.

The problem was actually with CONTRAINTS. I'd renamed the table on DEV to be old_XXX months ago. But when I tried to copy the original one over from PROD, the Defaut Constraint names clashed.

The error message was misleading